Sore losers.
It really makes Houston look bad to whine like this. Worse than they usually do, even.
Just another bleeding heart liberal asking for another government handout.
Stop looking for Uncle Sugar to just hand out things just because you’re jealous of those that have them. If you want a Space Shuttle, get a job and build one yourself.
(Yes, it is payback time for all the right wing nonsense the OP typically posts. Thanks for starting the thread in the Pit.)
Well the shuttles were built in So Cal.
They were first shown to the public in So Cal (air show at Edwards AFB mounted on the back of the 747)
They landed here a bunch of times.
California’s claim to a shuttle is clear, but you have to ask yourself why the fuck is NY getting one? What is New York’s connection to the shuttle program?
If the OP wants to whine, whine about New York, not So Cal.
Florida got one. Fuck the rest of you. Especially you, Houston, and your useless Mission Control.
No kidding.
I remember when Apollo 13 had a problem. All those “helpful” folks at mission control just “phoned it in” as far as I could tell. A decent Floridian would at least helped push or something.
Beat me to the joke, but phrased it better than I would have anyway.
Hmmm…the shit really was supposed to hit the fan.
As I heard the Shuttles are costing those who get them $28 million (roughly). That is to pay for NASA stripping them down and making them museum ready (fair enough).
All I can think though is if I had won that $300 million lottery a few weeks ago I could have offered $30 million and put it in my back yard (I’d still have plenty of money left and how cool would that be?).
Last time i looked, Los Angeles is on the west coast. Did something happen while i was working today?
Anyway, the OP is an idiot. The whole space program is one big “grease pocket.” A huge chunk of California’s postwar high-tech and aerospace economy was based on sucking the public tit for all it was worth. During the 1960s, 50% of all NASA expenditure went to California. We definitely deserve a shuttle for dedicating ourselves so ably to the cause of military-industrial socialism.
And, as others have already pointed out, they didn’t put mission control and all that other space-related shit in Houston just because they found your drawling accents and your sister-fucking habits especially charming. You got that shit through the same political glad-handing and lobbying and subtle threats and business-industry hand-jobs employed by everyone else who wanted to live on taxpayer money while crying from the rooftops about the evils of socialism and big government.
They should sell the damn things for scrap.
I think his point was that Houston should have been chosen with Washington and Kennedy Space Center. And the prototype should have then gone to Los Angeles rather than New York.
The weather man on KHOU this morning cordially wished New York City happiness with “their” shuttle. Repeatedly. And really, really cordially. Until the anchor lady called him on his sarcasm…
However, Houston’s proposal to house a shuttle was less than inspiring.
Read the details at SwampLot, which “covers real estate, home design and renovation, architecture, and the landscape of Houston, Texas. Swamplot did not flood during Allison — or Ike! Honest!”
Correct.
Sheesh. At least in Chicago, we were going to build a beautiful new glass building along the shore of Lake Michigan.
Still - yay flight sim!
Apparently yes, you can in fact mess with Texas.
Seriously, what IS the Museum of Flight going to do with that space now?
New York, eh? Cool, in six months we’ll be able to buy pieces of it off craigslist.
“Ah keep–Ah Say–Ah keep mah heat reflectin’ ceramic tiles numbered for just such an emergenceh!”
The only one on the list I really don’t get is the Intrepid museum. Aside from it being New York freakin’ City, why do they get one?
Regarding Houston, I understand the sentiments, but even though (or maybe because) I live in the area, this is simply not an ideal place for the long-term storage of delicate artifacts. The Saturn V diisplayed at Johnson was just recently brought back from the brink of disintegration, at a premium price, after being left to molder outdoors for decades. Even if a preserved shuttle were to be housed indoors, the massive destruction at the Lone Star Flight Museum down the road in Galveston, during Hurricane Ike, must give one pause. I’d be leery of Kennedy due to these considerations as well.
SoCal, aside from its claim as a manufacturing center for shuttle components, has a better climate for long-term preservation, so I don’t have a problem with that.
Part of me says there’s a good argument to have that Houston should get a space shuttle simply because it has a connection to every mind in America to the space program.
Another part of me thinks, since this is the pit, fuck Texas. If they quit championing governors who talk about succession maybe the rest of the country might be a little more apt to trust them with an important part of our history. I wouldn’t be surprised if they took our shuttle then yelled ‘ha ha we stole your shuttle’ and ran off with it and the rest of their hellhole of a state.
With their libertarian views why would anyone expect they would pay for up keep of this public treasure? I’m picturing it ending up in a desert with tumbleweed blowing by because no one was willing to pay for that socialist shuttle to be taken care of.